First time quilting and there's a problem
First, thanks, everyone, for the advice during this past week. Today, I finally sat down at the sewing machine to start some quilting. I looked in a few books and online and all of the sources said to do a few straight seams from edge to edge, in both directions, to stabilize the quilt.
The first 2 seams (across the width of the quilt) went really well and it was fun. I thought - it will be easy to finish this by Christmas! But when I tried to do the first lengthwise seam, when I got to where it crossed the width seams, it made sort of tuck or pleat. I tried to ease it but couldn't seem to. So I took out, one stitch at a time, the sewing for about 6 inches on either direction and tried again and it still isn't right.
Is there anything I can do to fix it? Should I have started in he middle instead of edge to edge? I now have a headache from picking out those tiny stitches and gave up for tonight. I wonder if I ought to just pick out the rest of the seams and give it to a longarm quilter. Any suggestions?